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| Photo by Robert Huggins, '04 |
Actress Gin Hammond performed the one-woman play The Syringa Tree at Whitworth in April. The play, which portrays apartheid in South Africa through 24 different characters, is based on the autobiographical novel by Pamela Gien, whose Broadway play won the 2001 Obie Award. For her own performance, Hammond won the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play. Hammond received her MFA from the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University/Moscow Art Theatre School. Her other stage performances include the roles of Leafy Lee in Polk County, voted one of the top 10 plays of 2002 by The New York Times, and the character of Wendy/Zena in Noon Day Sun, one of several plays in which Hammond has portrayed the compelling dynamics of racial ambiguity.
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